Monday is market day in Abingdon. It may not show in this particular picture but market day is the busiest shopping day in Abingdon. The shops join in by trying to grap people’s attention with bright colours and offers.
Boots, for example, has a ‘3 for 2 Baby Event‘. I wonder what that is all about.
Next door to John Mason School is Champion House…
It was owned by Oxfordshire County Council Social Services – Caring Countywide.
It is featured on a Friends of Abingdon display at the Community Shop along with other buildings like the Ox pub that are in danger of being redeveloped.
The community shop has reopened for a new run. For the first week there are exhibitions by The MG Car Club, Friends of Abingdon, and Abingdon Archaelogical and Historical Society. They will run until Heritage Weekend, which begins on Saturday 10th September, and then another community group or groups will take over – just like it used to be.
The shop has moved back to where Adams used to be. The other temporary community shop, over the other side of Bury Street, still has the consultation window display about changes to Abingdon town centre. There will be an extra open day on Saturday 10 September from 10:00am – 3:00pm to air your views on that. So that day will be a chance to see the town’s heritage and influence its future – future grows out of the past.
I was handing out heritage leaflets today, outside the shop, and met up with fellow Abingdon bloggers … Can I Walk Mummy? and Read it Daddy .
By the way if you haven’t seen the heritage leaflet, there are lots in the community shop, and it can be viewed here.
Outdoor Traders are launching Columbia’s new OutDry range and are inviting anyone to go along to the store on the Sat 3rd & Sun 4th of September to get a free pair of Columbia OutDry shoes worth £110 with any Columbia OutDry footwear purchase.
They even had a stall on the Market Place today demonstrating the products
and gave us snow in September.